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Shot of a group of young people wearing masks (Getty Images)

Is COVID herd immunity possible?

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez - KFF Health News
Woman's hand putting bath bomb into water (Getty Images)

My bath bomb gave me a UTI

Nicole Karlis
Artificial Intelligence robot (Getty Images)

AI can help with pandemic loneliness

Laken Brooks - The Conversation
Mt. Ama Dablam in the Everest Region of the Himalayas, Nepal. (Pal Teravagimov/Shutterstock)

Clashes threaten science in Himalayas

Lou Del Bello - Undark
Working at home during quarantine during a coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

The end of workaholic culture

Matthew Rozsa
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Trump healthcare policies we should keep

Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News
Coronavirus, Covid-19 spores (Getty Images)

Where SARS-CoV-2 jumped to humans

Matthew Rozsa
Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Reexamining the social cost of carbon

Ramin Skibba - Undark
Painting depicting the new horizons space probe as it approaches Charon, Pluto's moon. Dated 2015. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How dark is outer space?

Briley Lewis - Massive Science
Four friends laughing around a table wearing their face protective masks incorrectly. (Getty Images)

Should I fear the half-vaccinated?

Nicole Karlis
The site of Gold Spa, is viewed on March 17, 2021, one of the three Asian massage parlors that was hit by deadly shooting attacks in Northeast Atlanta, Georgia on March 16, 2021. - Six Asian women were among eight people shot and killed at spas around the US city of Atlanta, raising fears March 17, 2021 that it might be the most violent chapter yet in a wave of attacks on Asian-Americans. A white man is in custody on suspicion of staging all three attacks, police said as a Georgia state Democratic party leader suggested the attack matched "a pattern" of violence on Asian-Americans during the pandemic. (VIRGINIE KIPPELEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Violence isn't a sex addiction symptom

Nicole Karlis
A sad fish (Getty Images)

Fish are gobbling up plastic

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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The grim practice of "chick culling"

Jonathan Moens - Undark
Antique medical book: Eye (Getty Images)

Scientists create artificial tear glands

Matthew Rozsa
Tired businesswoman with face mask sitting indoors in office, feeling headache (Getty Images)

Why everyone is so exhausted right now

Nicole Karlis
Fragments of the new discovered Dead Sea Scroll are seen in a lab in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on March 16, 2021. Israeli archaeologists have discovered dozens of fragments of a biblical scroll written in Greek in the Cave of Horror near the Dead Sea. (Xinhua/Muammar Awad via Getty Images)

What the new Dead Sea Scrolls tell us

Matthew Rozsa
Doctor in protective gloves & workwear filling injection syringe with COVID-19 vaccine (Getty Images)

Inside the theory of "immune training"

Matthew Rozsa
Corona virus close up wide shot in blood (Getty Images)

Expect COVID booster shots, experts say

Matthew Rozsa
Anti vaccination (Getty Images)

Republican men are the anti-vaxxers now

Nicole Karlis
A health worker after her vaccination against Covid-19 with the Chinese company Sinopharm's Vero vaccine at Edgardo Rebagliati Hospital in Lima, Peru. In early February, the South American country received the first shipment of 300,000 doses of the Chinese Corona vaccine. Sinopharm had already collaborated with Peru in the practical testing phase of the vaccine. (Alex Rosemberg/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Amid COVID-19, TB surges in Peru

Robin Blades - Undark
Thacker Pass (U.S. Bureau of Land Management)

The battle of Thacker Pass

Maddie Stone - Grist
Female medical professional in Personal Protective Equipment (Getty Images)

Masks make patients distrust docs

Matthew Rozsa
A health worker holds a box of the AstraZeneneca vaccine (Chaiwat Subprasom/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

AstraZeneca vaccine suspended abroad

Nicole Karlis
Four Generations of Briggs Meyers Women (Photograph by Courtesy of HBO Max)

It's time to cancel personality tests

Matthew Rozsa
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